skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy and the Windows 8 Start screen
Last weekend I installed Windows 8 Pro from Dreamspark. As this is the final version and having a hotmail account I used my hotmail account in the setup. However I was amazed to see on the Start screen my profile picture from Facebook (linked previously to hotmail), my full name from hotmails profile of me and my hotmail address. I was amazed not because Microsoft have this info but because if I was sitting in a public place, anyone within 10-15 feet of me would also have this information just by looking at my laptop screen.
Considering that a hotmail account is a requirement of using and purchasing metro apps, from 26th of October this will be something that a lot of people may have to consider.
Any thoughts
PS First time poster so unsure if this qualifies as a good question for here or not.
Secure distribution of node.js apps
Anonymous claims attacking Greek official websites
yes, but none of them are that trivial... and if they were, then cheating wouldn't make much sense.
e.g. the coin change algorithm, I'm sure the distribution of answers was quite unique for anyone who tried solving it alone. same for even simple things like the pascal triangle.

But it's a moot argument as we need to do a real research (or ask coursera / Martin Odersky for the data, which I'm sure HN community will be happy to run some data mining on)
I (unknowingly) posted my code for the class on Github. As you point out, I did it with the "yay public code" mindset, not thinking about cheating at all. I'm taking it down right now and apologizing to the Coursera staff.
Hmm, only a government would pay so much for a camera... Perhaps therein lies the problem though.
Looking forward to it! Any domains to watch?
They used to do that. Perhaps it failed and they think they will have better luck with a browser?
Absolutely true and one of the reasons I would be hesitant to live somewhere like Singapore. I wasn't arguing that Singapore was better, but simply discussing the surprise that the original commenter had in learning about such restrictive economic regulations in the US.

And the truth is, Singapore's benevolent dictatorship and the governments of 8 other nations currently allow their citizens more economic freedoms than the democratically elected politicians in the United States. At least, that's what this Index claims, which seems to match reality to some extent. The Index doesn't measure the power of the government to take those freedoms away on a whim, or non-economic freedoms, but simply the current level of economic freedom in these countries.
Here's the post from Humble bundle blog, with a very short synopses for each book on one page.

http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/33237485887/introducing-th...
Zipcar CEO Details In-Car Assistant
I was thinking of some of the fancy aluminium-lithium alloys, but I guess they are mainly used on the rocket bodies, not the satellites. But even if it's just aluminium, that's a lot of high-spec machining and welding to just burn up.
"Then, towards the end of the 5th year, the bamboo shoots up and grows over 30 meters tall. The plant is in fact the fastest growing plant on earth and can grow around 1m within 24 hours during that period."

Which is why the USDA regulated it as a 'harmful species' in 7 CFR part 319 [1] :-) There are places in California where its gotten a bit out of control.

The appearance of 'overnight success' was the topic of Gladwell's flawed but interesting book "Outliers." And the model of building a lot of invisible infrastructure followed by sudden growth which depends on that infrastructure is common. Its sad that in some work environments the effort to build the infrastructure is ignored/lost. There is always a very real danger that folks get moved off a project before the basics are in place to show 'success.' That limits the horizon for a lot of people on the size problem they are willing to work on. Which is really too bad since there are some awesome challenges that take a bunch of work ahead of time before they show any results (like web search).

[1] www.fas.usda.gov/info/fr/1998/032098license.pdf
I do this course to learn, and I enjoy trying to solve things on my own, cheating on this is cheating yourself. If I was in a point I need this to boost my resume, I would ask myself if I'm in the right profession.
Having been running OE since beta, its save my butt 4 -5 times finding files. Even got me out a jam during an audit. Looking forward to playing with the tagging functions.
At first, for 5 years, after you have sown the seed you see nothing, other than a tiny shoot, poking its head up from the ground.

"Growing like Bamboo" will become the new buzzword. Companies will start saying "Tomorrow we launch, and we better be growing like bamboo." People will get even more depressed that their app or SAAS isn't having a meteoric launch while they quickly try to fix bugs.

Everybody will think back to this article and forget that line - that the bamboo plant took years to prepare and arrange resources before launching. It can't be done overnight.
You can be happy doing what you're doing at the time, but that doesn't mean your life is in balance. It just means you're happy right now. Well, a heroin addict that shoots up is happy while he's high.

Think ahead a little.
Now that's a startup story. Backblaze has some of the best down home old fashioned spit n glue startup stories on hacker news. Like the one where they invented their own storage pod out of commodity components to beat amazon's pricing. And now this stay-alive-against-all-odds story. Fantastic.
Good to read a blog post like this after seeing IceBoxPro's attempt at security.
A single person taking the role of director/editor/screenwriter is pretty much unheard of in the industry.

Rare, but not unheard of. Soderbergh likes to do all of those things, though he uses pseudonyms for his "editor" self.

Kevin Smith is such a big fan of doing his own editing that he compares hiring an editor to delegating having sex with your wife to someone else, but that's Kevin Smith, for you.
I think I may have misrepresented myself. I have not avoided the buggy hell described above. I have lived through it. My point is, his problems are temporary and expected for anyone that cares to better themselves. So it is perfectly natural for him to be upset about it, and his emotions are valid.

What is dangerous is he is currently leaning towards the idea that to be a good programmer you must be pessimistic, always afraid of the all the crazy unknowns that might happen. This is wrong, there are techniques to avoid these problems that will naturally become part of his programming style over time. No need to be a pessimist, no need to be afraid. Just keep on plugging away and one day he will wake up and think, its weird that programming does not feel like I'm pushing a rock up a hill anymore.

Edit: Also I never said he was not a programmer, I said he didn't yet understand what it means to be one. We all go through this, and he will realize it eventually. I just hope he doesn't end up as jaded as his article assumes he will.
thanks! We're going to change that font ASAP.
I'm the same that I'd have no problem saying that sort of thing face to face, however this doesn't change the fact that what you said wasn't civil - the face to face part is an addition, not a definition of "civil".
These are shallow arguments:
* pepper is "inspired" by nsapi, clarify your point.
* PNaCl performance lagging isn't a solid argument, you know it'll get better, the solution might even be to cut LLVM out save for bitcode.
* "nobody does this at the moment" so why does it belong in the OS?
> 7. Forget your future plans. Build something people want.

So much truth here. Solid piece.
The Men Who Made Dark Souls Whole
Would, for instance, Bing able to use Google search-related patented technology if software patents are "no longer enforceable"/disabled/patentable etc
I would say probably not on #3 ... however, given the general NAT concept and such, having an outgoing connection could poke the hole, but this isn't how a listening service usually works, so it would require something else. However, once the session is negotiated, then HTTP (in theory) should work, although it is stateless at that level, but anyway, this is all a lot of bother because at this point you should go ahead and do something that's less of a kludge since you're already doing NAT traversal.
> Sure then they may not be the happy at a maximum, but since they haven't found such a maximum yet their hapiness on a relative scale is 100%.

Interesting concept. That may have been true 50 years ago when it was not really possible to discover if other people were happier than your personal 100% level. Unfortunately, due to the internet, TV and Hollywood, it's extremely easy to discover there are tons of people out there happier than you.

After traveling the back roads of Central and South America for 2 years, it was amazing to show up in a dirt-street town where people were struggling to get food and potable water, and see them crowd around a TV and watch a blonde hair, blue eyed Jennifer Anniston complain about some trivial issue like her sofa not matching the carpet. Hollywood is an excellent marketing department, and purveyor of a "You are not as happy as you could be" mentality.
If it does not "make that check"... then how does it know?
(It does check)
Totally agree. When people learn to code, it's important to teach them that code is written for other humans to read and understand.

I'm making CodeHS (http://codehs.com) to teach beginners to code and stress coding style and code readability.

We give every students real live tutors who help them out and critique their code to improve their understanding.
Sf.citi | San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation
Lightning cables have been hacked
We can't do ICMP. Only TCP and UDP
Humble Bundle has such a great website design.
johnmurch's comment has a lot of what I'd say. I'm not so sure about his #2 or 3 but his #1 was really good.

I'd just price it super low and have the option to prepay for a year for a small discount. If I had built this, I wouldn't be having visions of raking in millions but you could realistically make a nice side income from it. If the price is like $4 a month or $20 for a year and you're basically just hosting a CRUD app that only stores text then it shouldn't be very expensive to run. Consider too that you built it just for fun. Put that all together and even if you charged $1 for life from every user you've made a profit. Maybe I'm wrong but that's how I think of my projects. It's like I was going to rent the servers and build something anyway so even if I make a single cent then I'm in the green.

But to answer your question more directly, yes. If this were a beautiful site/mobile app that did this one thing really well I would pay. It would be really pretty to look at (like Cheddar is/was), would be super convenient (open a URL or tap a phone icon), and do one thing well (I managed different todo lists with others and I didn't have to fuck with settings or signing in more than once a month or click/tap through more than one screen to get what I wanted) so it would be worth the few bucks I'd probably spend on a coffee or something.

A problem I see is getting groups to use it. Individuals all have their own preferred ways of todo-ing. A thought just came to me that if you made this awesome to work with alone then people would end up using it on their own and then they'd get together and use the group features later. Just a thought.

Tie-ins with other products would be good too. I don't know if they're monetizable but they're certainly great for promotion. If you could build an API and hook your app up to someone else's and vice versa that could definitely be a value-add for a lot of people. Throw up a payment form with Stripe and just see if people will pay $1 for fully refundable 30-day trial and the promise of getting in on some future features of your choosing. That will tell you a lot about how interested people are and if its worth exploring monetization.
This sounds like a great opportunity for developers to send in amicus curiae briefs to the court decrying the absurdity of software patents.

Does anyone know what such a letter should look like? To what address should they be sent?
The lesson that I take from it is that there's always more than one way to make great art. Some directors hold the camera, some don't. Some directors edit, some don't. Some directors write their own screenplays, some don't.

It's really easy to look at a limited sample size (say, your own career) and assume that the things that you've seen are pervasive. "Best Practices" are only best in a particular context.
Grinder Version 0.3 released - Penetration Testing and Security Tools
The Cobra Language
Trigger.io rocks. On top of mobile app development, they also help with browser add-ons. Check out what they allow for the zemanta add-on - http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...
I'm loving all the various changes, but one thing I miss is the line in the footer that used to proudly proclaim the version/build of the various pieces of software (e.g., Django, piston, some oauth thing) that bitbucket runs on. Don't see it as a comment in the source either - was that moved somewhere else?
Dangerous Intersection
This is a solved problem in most messaging protocols.
Apple TV and AirPlay Fuel Rise of Dual-Screen Apps
I would just think default iterators are a sensible default especially for maps and that getting them in would be worth the very slight pain it might cause people wanting to attach custom iterators.
I think it really depends on what you mean by "technology", but if you mean PageRank, I assume it is really a math/algorithm description (I've never read the patent), so it would no longer be considered patentable.

That said, it seems like everyone uses some variant on PageRank as at least part of their search engine heuristics, so it might be that the patent is fairly narrow and/or they don't try to enforce it anyways.
Just canceled my GitHub private subscription. I only recently found out a few weeks ago that Bitbucket offers git access; the last time I used them, it was Hg-only. Really happy to be using Atlassian products again, and I love the new redesign. Awesome stuff!
So was that anecdote a one-off, or was Kubrick that way with every part of the camera?

Did he visit the summer home of the guy who milled the camera's metal bits? Did he play with the camera assembler's dog?
Learning the technique for yourself is one thing. Applying it universally is another, and applying it to other people is yet another. He shouldn't assume that if a conversation takes a negative twist that somebody has screwed up and the empathetic thing to do is to put it back on a positive track. For example, I was waiting to cross the street the other day, and a woman came running past me and ran across the street against the light so she could catch a bus that was about to pull away. A black kid standing next to me said, "If I did that, that cop over there would have pulled over to get me." It was an unpleasant and awkward thing for me to contemplate, and probably not the right thing to say if the kid wanted to put me at ease or be the most charming possible company, but all he wanted was a little microdose of empathy from a stranger. (In retrospect, I'm impressed he was optimistic enough to expect it. I hope I delivered.) Trying to put that conversation back on a pleasant track would not have showed much empathy; in fact, it probably would have made him feel more alone instead of less alone.

I don't mean to send a harsh personal judgment about the author, by the way, only his message. The zeal of the convert is something that happens naturally to everyone when they discover something that opens up new possibilities for them, whether it's a social technique or a programming language.
MongoDB or How I learned to stop worrying and love SQL
Universal Plug and Play
Manual Rule Adding
Third Party Server
Is not most of it still under trade secret?
I'd like to see some kind of vision, focus, or specific goals for the future on that page. Being nice to each other and concentrating on the end-user are certainly good things, but where is KDE going next? Broad strokes here. Is it going to focus on being the best desktop environment out there or is it going to try to include tablets? What kind of user is it going to focus on? Is it in a race to the newbie filled bottom with Unity and OSX or is it trying to appeal to power-users? What weaknesses most urgently need to be addressed?

Nobody has to lay down the law and say what can and cannot be done with KDE projects, but expressing specific aspirations to motivate developers would be very helpful to the platform.
+1. I really like bitbucket, especially the free private repositories. I will definitely look to buy products/services from you when the time comes.

Hope you get hold of the .com domain name soon.
I sense the presence of the submarine.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Why Value(Designer Bag) more than Value(Software Development)?
couldn't delegate properly

Why delegate tasks that you enjoy doing? He was obviously a competent camera operator.
New file sharing web app to take on Dropbox & ge.tt(muo.fm/SBuBlD)
New Multiple Location Password Encryption Method Avoids Hacks
Yes, exactly. In the OP's example, the question the OP should have asked is:

"What is the cameraman roll in my specific startup that I absolutely need to do?"

Not, "How do I do every job in my startup".
That you are replying to every single comment with a defensive rationale tells me your motivations for posting this are not balanced with the interests of the site. Not to mention that you are offering dogma while saying you're trying to steer people away from dogma.
What's wrong with skype? Isn't it encrypted P2P? Naive question I'm sure.
"First, books are a special kind of products, they do not obey the same rules as commercial products, they are culture. To explain a little, I am french and we have a law for the unique price of books: the price you will pay for a book will be the same on amazon, at fnac, in your local bookshop or in a supermarket."

You can pay as much or as little as you wish. They are not gouging you, how could it possibly be objectionable that they are not forcing you to spend more money?
We fixed it on the blog. We still have to address it on the main site. Google's Open Sans looks awesome on OSX and Windows/IE & Firefox. But it's totally busted on Chrome on W7. Go Figure.
>I sometimes wonder if github's not headed to become the new reddit. At least if you look at some of the comment threads on the site it looks that way [1].

You mean the new old reddit, I presume? Where reddit was a tech-dominant site rather than a news aggregator / spam site?
There's no such thing as a satisfying, fulfilling experience of high school. The grass there will always seem like it was greener on the other side.

The real reason for this is that we take such large jumps in maturity after school stops holding us back that, in retrospect, we realize that if we hadn't been such fucking idiots in high school, we could have had it all.
"Telling somebody to "look it up in the Wiki" is tantamount to telling them to go f* themselves." Ha! So very true.
Cat in Color
Correct. Reliability and Availability are two separate but related goals.
Not of an external memory system, no. This would be internal. But would you call it "an internal memory system", or "decreased growth in reaction to sunlight"?

Another option: (micro-)evolution. Is an amoeba's resistance to a chemical "memory", or an environment-selected random mutation? Again, technically it can be viewed as memory, but it's diluting the term so far as to make it a catch-all for any kind of information, ever, to get someone to click on a link.
This looks so awesome! I'm really excited to add this to my projects.
The features that would make it just another team based todo app might be a good idea to keep out of the app. Its really nice as-is. Sometimes features like assigning tasks and notifications are more distracting than helpful. You'll have to decide on your definition of a group. Is it a medium-largish company? In that case they'll probably want a lot of structure and those features. But if your idea of a group or team is five friends working together or just any tight group then leaving it without notifications and assignment would be a good thing. Personally, if I assign someone a task I don't want a notification of when its done. If its that important the person knows to call me. And I don't need another text field to assign someone a task. Everyone in my group knows what we have to do and we do it. If not, I'll just append a "Feed the dog (Johnny)". Simple is better.
I think it is really unfair to call Github greedy - they provide a valuable service and charge, in my opinion, a very reasonable price for it.

I'm actually considering moving to bitbucket - I have a lot of small private repos, and free vs $22/month makes a lot of sense. It's not that $22 is a "lot" of money - when you just have a bunch of small stuff on the side and don't make a ton of money off it, $22 here and $10 there starts to add up.

But I don't think Github is greedy - I'm just not their target market, and that's fine.
I'm glad you liked the comment :), but I do think it is good that he has shared his feelings. Whatever you can do to gain new perspectives and grow should be done. My hope is that after writing this article that he reads through all these comments and realizes his future is much brighter than he currently believes it to be. And that all the frustrations that he is experiencing are temporary and will quite quickly go away.
Why is Neil Gaimen in the humble bundle? I thought this was to help under-exposed artists, not writers who are already a massive success.

I say make room for talented writers who could use the money.
I would say it's less likely that Mac users are wealthier, and more likely that Mac users are willing to pay for things that they want to have.